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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says ''next summer," and not July 1, is the date cannabis will become legal across the country.

Under current law, Ministry of Health approval is required before most cannabis-based products can be prescribed.

Canadians consumed an estimated $5-billion to $6.2-billion worth of cannabis in 2015, a study by Statistics Canada showed on Monday, ahead of the nationwide legalization of recreational use of the drug next year.

All right, all right, all right: South Florida’s first marijuana-infused beers are coming to Devour Brewing Company in Boynton Beach.

Hemp, also known as the industrial Hemp is the non-psychoactive (below 1% THC) range of the marijuana Sativa. 

The trillium is Ontario’s official flower and marijuana could now be considered the province’s official weed with the passage of the Cannabis Act.

Health Canada requires that licensed producers conduct mandatory testing of all cannabis products for the presence of unauthorized pesticides. To meet those quality standards, companies are finding enterprising ways to grow and cultivate “clean” cannabis.

Five months after legalising recreational marijuana, there are more than 16,000 Uruguayans registered to buy the drug from pharmacies, up from 5,000 users in July.

Nova Scotia and P.E.I. both set their legal age for marijuana at 19 on Thursday, but the two East Coast provinces are taking different paths on how weed will be sold.

The BC government has released its plan for recreational marijuana following a public consultation process with more than 48,000 responses.

Leamington, Ont.-based Aphria Inc. said Monday that it had struck a deal to sell medical marijuana to Loblaw-owned Shoppers Drug Mart, Canada’s largest pharmacy chain.

It may not feature in Morocco's official tourism brochures but cannabis attracts thousands of visitors a year to the North African country. 

With a potential value of more than $40 billion, Europe’s medical marijuana market could become the world’s largest in the next five years.

What do you do if you’re a budding awards show trying to create a buzz around Canada’s $8.7-billion cannabis market?

The international market for marijuana is booming. It’s set to reach $50 billion within a decade. And after spending millions to crack down on the drug, Jamaica’s government has decided it wants to cash in.

An Ontario college is offering a new class it says responds to the growing demand for a skilled professionals to support Canada's expanding medical marijuana industry as legalization looms.

In fields across Switzerland the harvest time for cannabis is coming to an end, and workers are distributing the crop to shops in France and Switzerland.

Australian company Meluka Health is closer to having a honey produced by bees pollinating on cannabis plants.

The number of cannabis oil users across the UK has doubled in the space of one year, startling new figures reveal. 

The president of Peru signed a bill on Thursday legalizing medical marijuana across the country, a historic move that came a few weeks after the Peruvian Congress voted to approve it.